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Montana Senss Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Steve Daines, a Republican, introduced the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act to the Senate Wednesday, a potentially historic bill that will secure the Fort Belknap Indian Community’s Indian water rights. The bill would invest $1.3 billion in water infrastructure and provide economic opportunity across the Hi-Line as well as help to avoid costly litigation over water rights in the area, a release from Fort Belknap said Wednesday. The bill also includes c...
Scorecard Staff and wire report HELENA - Freshman Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, scored a perfect 100 and earned a place on Montana Conservation Voters' bipartisan Honor Roll in the organization's 2023 Legislative Scorecard. Sen. Mike Lang, R-Malta, also made the honor roll, primarily for his work on a bill dealing with revenue from marijuana taxes in the state. The report details the voting records of Montana's lawmakers during the recently concluded 68th session of the Montana...
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court preserved today the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack from some Republican-led states and white families who argued it is based on race. The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes. Montana state R...
Hill County Mosquito Control District Board will meet Monday, June 19, 2023, at 5:15 p.m. at its offices in the Road and Weed Shop Complex at 1405 W. Second St. 1. Review minutes from previous meeting 2. Correspondence 3. Unfinished business A) Budget update B) Larvicide applications C) Crew training 4. New business A) Budget review B) Purchase order approval C) National Mosquito Awareness Week, June 18-24, 2023 5. Announcements — non-action items 6. Public comment 7. Adjourn The next meeting of the Hill County Mosquito C...
Hill County Weed Board will meet Friday, June 16, at 11 a.m. at the Hill County Shop. • Call to order: Minutes • Public comment • Correspondence • Unfinished business: Non-compliance issue • New business: Spring training; budget; Pull Your Share project; burdock digs; Extension updates; drone updates; crew training and hiring....
Havre Police Department A Fourth Street caller asked Wednesday at 9:12 a.m. for assistance locating a 5-year-old who was missing, with the front door to the residence open, and the child was subsequently located. -- A theft from the previous night was reported Wednesday at 10:56 a.m. at a First Street business. -- A 15th Avenue caller reported Wednesday at 11:59 a.m. that someone had tried to break into the caller's shop. -- Niles Duane Stiffarm of Hays, 31, was arrested on a...
Havre Daily News staff A boy paying it forward for supplies that helped save his life has a Red Cross blood drive scheduled in Havre Wednesday. The family of Troy Ross, whose 9th birthday is this month, helped organize eight blood drives across the state. Six years ago, Troy was in Seattle battling a rare immune disease and had to have three-quarters of his blood replaced, blood available due to blood donations, a press release about the TroyStrong blood drives said. He has been in remission for one year. For the past six...
Staff and wire report The Montana Skatepark Association has announced the launch of Madness in the Mountains, a statewide fundraiser and skateboard challenge happening all across Montana beginning Wednesday, June 21 — International Go Skateboarding Day — and running through September 4. Along with raising funds to continue its work of building free, public, concrete skateparks around Montana, the goal of Madness in the Mountains is to engage and unite Montana’s skateboard community, a release from the association said. Monta...
Bullhook Community Health Center's new mobile care unit is up and running, providing physicals to Havre High students in the unit's first major public event. Doctors and medical staff from Bullhook provided physical exams for students looking to get approved for the upcoming year of athletics, an event being done in partnership with Havre Public Schools. The handicap-accessible mobile unit contains two medical exam rooms with enough space and equipment for Bullhook staff to...
In a lengthy meeting Tuesday evening, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees discussed the possibility of allowing eighth graders to participate in certain sports, as well as approving contracts, establishing new committees and hearing an update on the district's technology department. The board has discussed the possibility of letting eighth graders participate in high school sports before and no action has been taken on the matter yet, but a decision will need to be made...
From MSU News Service The leadership of Montana State University's flagship campus in Bozeman is going on a bus tour of the state June 20-22, with social events planned in Havre and Chester. Today is the deadline to RSVP for the Tuesday, June 20, tour at Northern Agricultural Research Center at Fort Assinniboine south of Havre and the Wednesday, June 21, event at Liberty County Senior Citizens Center in Chester. The event at NARC starts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and the social in...
Press release FORT BENTON - As paddle fishing season winds down, the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument begins seasonal boating restrictions along segments of the river designated as wild and scenic. Starting Thursday, June 15, seasonally restricted segments include: • Pilot Rock to Deadman's Rapids (River Mile 52 to 84.5): Motorized watercraft travel downstream only at no-wake speeds, every day. • Holmes Council Island to Fred Robinson Bridge (River Mile 92.5 to...
Press release Finalists for the 2023 High Plains Book Awards were recently released, with winners to be announced at an awards event Oct. 7, in Billings. All nominated works — 263 of them this year — were read and evaluated by community readers. Winners in each category will be determined by a judging panel of published writers with connections to the High Plains region. This year, 12 of the finalists hailed from Canada, and eight were from Montana, including Big Sky Award finalist Charles Finn, a poet whose book “On a Bened...
Havre Police Department A written or verbal warning was issued Tuesday at 1:29 p.m. after numerous prank 911 calls from juveniles were plotted to a First Avenue location. -- Officers searched for but were unable to locate people reported in a white Dodge pickup truck taking things from an abandoned building on 11th Street West at 4 p.m. Tuesday. -- A Tuesday 5:54 p.m. caller reported finding items stolen from him and being sold at a pawn shop. -- Officers issued a written or...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it is implementing a multi-step effort aimed at strengthening the substantiation of animal-raising claims. This action builds on the significant work USDA has already undertaken to protect consumers from false and misleading labels and to implement President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American economy. “Consumers should be able to trust that the label claims they see on products bearing the USDA mark of inspection are truth...
Press release HELENA — Montana Department of Agriculture and Montana State University Extension were recently announced as partners in a $30 million U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to establish a regional center to create opportunities for food producers and increase food security. Co-led by Colorado State University and Oregon State University, the new Northwest and Rocky Mountain Food Business Center is part of a larger effort nationwide, for which the USDA announced $400 million in funding last September. “This fun...
People interested in starting a career path as a crop insurance agent or adjuster can join the Building Resiliency pilot program to gain education, certification, and potential placement with an agency. Building Resiliency emphasizes the value of including people from various social and ethnic backgrounds in the crop insurance industry to utilize agriculture insurance products beneficial to underserved communities. Fill out the intake form today at the link below. The recruitment period ends Friday, June 23, at 9:59 p.m....
Press release WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday the deployment of a tool to assist industry and small disadvantaged entities in identifying potential opportunities for selling their products and services to USDA. USDA’s Procurement Forecast lists the types of anticipated solicitations that small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned businesses, HUBZone businesses, service-disabled veterans, and other businesses may be able to participate in contracts with USDA, or thr...
Harlem Mayor and former state Sen. Ken "Kim" Hansen died of natural causes Saturday at age 71. Harlem City Clerk Becky Schroeder said City Council President Chris Green is serving as mayor, with a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to decide whether he, or another council member, will finish out Hansen's term, which lasts until 2025. Hansen, who operated a farm near Harlem before moving to town, was born in 1951 and graduated from Harlem High School in 1971. He attended...
The H. Earl Clack Museum Board discussed, at their monthly meeting Monday evening, a number of issues, including museum hours, parking and incoming gift shop items, and also discussed presentations recently given at a meeting of the Montana Dinosaur Trail. Board members decided not to change the museum’s hours for the summer, but did decide to put up a sign cautioning people that the museum may open a half-hour late occasionally due to the schedule of tours at the Wahkpa C...
Evening summertime music is back in Havre starting Wednesday with the first Sounds on the Square scheduled to start at Havre’s Town Square at 6 p.m. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been organizing free music at the square pretty much since it was created two decades ago. “Pack up that picnic basket and dine al fresco with friends, neighbors and family at the square all while enjoying the rhythm of the music from old favorites, country and rock,” a post from the Chamber says. “Large crowds enjoy the variety music p...
Press release Paws of Chinook, a non-profit, no-kill shelter, is holding an adoption event at North 40 Outfitters in Havre Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with several of their dogs and puppies attending. All animals at the event will be current on vaccines, spayed or neutered, and microchipped. Adoption fees will be reduced to $150 during this event only. People are encouraged to check out the dogs posted on the Paws website at http://www.pawsofchinook.org, fill out an apply and get pre-approved before the...
Havre Police Department A break-in was reported at 10:18 a.m. Monday on Ninth Avenue. -- A caller reported spray paint on the wall in the alley at a Fourth Avenue facility Monday at 11:09 a.m. -- A First Street caller reported at 12:50 p.m. Monday that someone had thrown feces into his backyard. -- A Monday 7:01 p.m. caller reported a building north off First Street had been hit in the last two days. -- Officers investigated a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation reported Monday at...
Montana Actors' Theatre's Ren Faire and production of "Twelfth Night" at Beaver Creek Park this weekend appears to have been a big success, with over 1,000 attendees and a successful show all three days. MAT Executive Director Jay Pyette said the crowd was about the same as last year, but the events relocation to Eagles Campground on Beaver Creek Park made for a great event with tons of space for the Faire and everyone who went to it. "It really worked out great," Pyette...
